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Case Report

The First Report of Pure Neuritic Leprosy with Involvement of the Anterior Femoral Cutaneous Nerve

by
Francisco Bezerra de Almeida Neto
1,2,3,*,
Raul Aureliano Neto
1 and
Lucas Machado Carvalho Cardoso
1
1
Department of Dermatology, Maurício de Nassau University Center, Recife, Brazil
2
Department of Tropical Medicine, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Pernambuco, Brazil
3
Dermatology, Leprology and Venereology Department, Herbert de Souza Health Care Center – Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco, Brazil
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Neurol. Int. 2019, 11(2), 8001; https://doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8001
Submission received: 27 January 2019 / Revised: 27 January 2019 / Accepted: 14 April 2019 / Published: 18 June 2019

Abstract

We describe the case of a young man, 22 years old, a household contact of leprosy, presenting paresthesia in the right leg and great thickening in the anterior femoral nerve and in the ipsilateral sural nerve. There were no typical dermatological lesions of leprosy. Ultrasonography confirmed the clinical finding. The clinical diagnosis of the disease was established and the patient started multibacillary-multidrug therapy, obtaining improvement of the initial symptomatology.
Keywords: Leprosy; pure neuritic leprosy; femoral cutaneous nerve; sural nerve Leprosy; pure neuritic leprosy; femoral cutaneous nerve; sural nerve

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de Almeida Neto, F.B.; Aureliano Neto, R.; Cardoso, L.M.C. The First Report of Pure Neuritic Leprosy with Involvement of the Anterior Femoral Cutaneous Nerve. Neurol. Int. 2019, 11, 8001. https://doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8001

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de Almeida Neto FB, Aureliano Neto R, Cardoso LMC. The First Report of Pure Neuritic Leprosy with Involvement of the Anterior Femoral Cutaneous Nerve. Neurology International. 2019; 11(2):8001. https://doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8001

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de Almeida Neto, Francisco Bezerra, Raul Aureliano Neto, and Lucas Machado Carvalho Cardoso. 2019. "The First Report of Pure Neuritic Leprosy with Involvement of the Anterior Femoral Cutaneous Nerve" Neurology International 11, no. 2: 8001. https://doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8001

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